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by gspetr 10y ago
If you enjoyed this, I highly recommend also giving this a try: https://github.com/donnemartin/interactive-coding-challenges It's in the same spirit, has some things covered in even more detail and it even has t
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by gspetr 10y ago
Not a question, more like a feature request. Really wish this had answers to the exercises to verify correctness of a student's solution.
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by gspetr 10y ago
Shoot you an email where exactly? You should check your HN profile visibility from a browser where you're not logged in. You don't have email in your profile.
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by gspetr 10y ago
> Additionally, the tech industry, in my opinion, innovates at a significantly faster pace than the licensed engineering disciplines. Perhaps these are correlated in some way. I think you're right. Regulation stifles innovation. Eve
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by gspetr 10y ago
Following this logic, anyone who manages engineers is a developer.
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If you want a significant constituency I'll give you one. Do all the daughters of upper middle class software engineers do not exist? That's among tech leaders' families in the US. So where are they? Or is it that they have s
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by gspetr 10y ago
HN tends to be SF-centric and SF is RoR-central, probably the reason why they flagged it.
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Yeah, this: https://xkcd.com/927/
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> I think that is a side-effect that ruby in rails was ruby in the mind of many, and python was weak at first in web (before django). Django was actually released first.
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by gspetr 10y ago
> "How well does this person do the job" And people use experience and continued employment as proxy. Sorry, companies have not figured out a better method in general. If you only look at women who never married and never had c
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by gspetr 10y ago
> One way to understand the effects of systemic "isms" is that the targets have to continually deal with a headwind that others don't, and the cumulative effect of this is like compound interest. Nevertheless there do exis
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by gspetr 10y ago
> Efforts to reduce imbalance (regardless of demographic) is necessary to overcome location bias, and the bigger the pool, the higher the tide for all boats. Thing is, you can do it right and do it wrong. Effort for the sake of effort me
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by gspetr 10y ago
OK, let's look at different sets of people. My argument is that you cannot expect uniform distribution of career choices either by race or gender. You can't expect exactly 13% of cops to be african american or exactly 50% of physi
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by gspetr 10y ago
There are software companies composed of all men (or 95% men if we want to be a bit more relaxed). Successful ones - as in making profit. Where are all-women (or 95% women) companies? If you can get away with paying them less, where are all
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by gspetr 10y ago
This seems very surprising to me. And it also seems criminally exploitable. So if a bank in Poland sends you a million dollars by mistake, is it yours? What would happen if someone stole it and transferred it to your account, does that make
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by gspetr 10y ago
Can confirm, know a guy who plays video games and is not looking for work. Playing video games is his work.
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by gspetr 10y ago
Let me tell you how I did it. I found a job for which I was overqualified and when I was done with the job for the day I studied for a better job. After doing this recursively a few times I landed a well paying job with great health insuran
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by gspetr 10y ago
In my experience most of the places that tried to pull the "no good people" card were also the places that refused to pay even 20% above the market. If this were true people would be poached a lot more frequently than what we can
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by gspetr 10y ago
Like the sibling commenter I also doubt that people get fired very frequently. Shady body shops come to mind. I've witnessed exactly 2 people fired in 7 years. And anecdotally, the bigger the company the rarer the firings. Where were y
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by gspetr 10y ago
"Good" articles, linking to extreme degenerate pedophilia propaganda site, the Salon[1]. Where were their toxic Islam and toxic homophobia articles following the Orlando shooting? They like to rant about toxic masculinity only aft
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by gspetr 10y ago
It only takes you so far. Mainland China is 99, Hong Kong is 107. The ethnicity is virtually the same so that is being as close to a controlled parameter as it realistically can be without doing unethical things.
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by gspetr 10y ago
Immortality (or at least agelessness).
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by gspetr 10y ago
Yes, go ahead and resort to stereotypes. RT is external propaganda, TV is the main instrument of internal propaganda. Very few Russians use that as their information source, even pro-regime ones. This is tantamount to Americans citing this
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by gspetr 10y ago
Lukashenko regime is much more stable because their police state is much stronger, they have literal KGB and people get visits from it for doing counter-regime posts on the internet much more often than in Russia. Ukrainian regime actually
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by gspetr 10y ago
Problem with your argument is, the last thing Russia wants is more sanctions, precisely because of it's currently collapsing economy. People are not happy and it is 2017, exactly a century since the Great October Revolution of 1917. Th
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by gspetr 10y ago
If he wanted a buffer he could have easily taken over Ukraine in the fall of 2014 and spring of 2015. Both times the rebels routed Ukrainian army and the road to Kiev was essentially clear. Reinstalling the puppet president would have been
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by gspetr 10y ago
Germany wanted resources and territory, "living space for the aryan race". Russia has more than enough of both.
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Full disclosure: I am Russian. Even Belarus and Kazakhstan don't really want to join, forget about the rest ex-USSR countries. Taking countries by force makes even less sense - there do not exist resources or territory that make it pro
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by gspetr 10y ago
That's what keeps puzzling me. Everyone throws the word "Russia" around without providing any kind of reason as to why it would invade any of those countries in the first place. Do they have Russian military bases of strategi
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The title is a clickbait. No proof, not even circumstantial.

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